Landis Brown Farm & Banks Farm: Late/Upper Santonian - Early/Lower Campanian, Alabama

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Testudines
Toxochelys moorevillensis Zangerl 1953
Zangerl 1953
Reptilia - Testudines - Protostegidae
Protostega dixie Zangerl 1953
    = Protostega gigas Cope 1871
Shimada and Hooks 2004
Includes FMNH P27452, disarticulated bones of a partial skeleton, left humerus and left hyoplastron show shark bites; PR58, three peripheral bones with shark bites
Actinopteri - Pachycormiformes - Pachycormidae
Protosphyraena sp. Leidy 1857
Applegate 1970
sp. 3
Actinopteri - Crossognathiformes - Pachyrhizodontidae
Pachyrhizodus caninus Cope 1872
Applegate 1970
Chondrichthyes - Hybodontiformes - Ptychodontidae
Ptychodus polygyrus Agassiz 1835
Applegate 1970
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Mitsukurinidae
Scapanorhynchus rhaphiodon (Agassiz 1843)
Applegate 1970
recombined as Lamna raphiodon
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Anacoracidae
Squalicorax falcatus (Agassiz 1843)
Applegate 1970
Chondrichthyes - Chimaeriformes - Edaphodontidae
Edaphodon mirificus Leidy 1856
Applegate 1970 2 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Alabama County:Greene
Coordinates: 32.8° North, 87.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.4° North, 59.3° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Key time interval:Late/Upper Santonian - Early/Lower Campanian
Age range of interval:85.80000 - 70.60000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Selma Formation:Mooreville Chalk
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:81931
Authorizer:M. Uhen, R. Benson Enterer:M. Uhen, R. Benson
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2008-07-18 14:45:53 Last modified:2014-05-05 12:47:56
Access level:the public Released:2008-07-18 14:45:53
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

786. R. Zangerl. 1953. The vertebrate fauna of the Selma Formation of Alabama. Part III. The turtles of the family Protostegidae. Fieldiana: Geology Memoirs 3(3):63-133 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

27582 S. P. Applegate. 1970. The vertebrate fauna of the Selma Formation of Alabama, part VIII, the fishes. Fieldiana: Geology Memoires 3(8):385-433 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Clapham]
27686 P. C. Gill, G. J. B. Ross, W. H. Dawbin and H. Wapstgra. 2000. Confirmed sightings of dusky dolphins (Lagenorhynchus obscurus) in southern Australian waters. Marine Mammal Science 16(2):452-459 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
42113 K. Shimada and G. E. Hooks III. 2004. Shark-bitten protostegid turtles from the Upper Cretaceous Mooreville Chalk, Alabama. Journal of Paleontology 78(1):205-210 [R. Benson/R. Benson]
787 R. Zangerl. 1953. The vertebrate fauna of the Selma Formation of Alabama. Part IV. The turtles of the family Toxochelyidae. Fieldiana: Geology Memoirs 3(4):145-277 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/P. Mannion]